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For some hope
means
something wakes up

:- Doug.

Destruction comes easy
Building up is long and we
are tired and older

:- Doug.

Ask for conversation—your other doesn’t have to participate, but it’s good for the rest of us that you do.

:- Doug.

I am a conversation practitioner—someone learning, doing, and imagining—not an expert. The two-rut road of conversation rolls out before me.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2416

Sigh
glass and water
reflect

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Is ecstasy—standing outside oneself—to be found in conversing? Or from going out to conversation?

:- Doug.

Mr. President, are you satisfied with your life? What’s missing?

:- Doug.

What suppose you is the elemental truth of conversing?

:- Doug.

What makes you diff’rent
is the secret hiding place
of uttermost worth

:- Doug.

It seems an irony that someone not talking can find friends so readily as John Francis does. Yet: words might not be necessary: Share a laugh—or tears.

:- Doug.

With himself
he is at war
pity him
pity us
what can we do for him?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2415

Get out
and soak up some sun
from others’ souls

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Conversation has become my way to slow in life, so as to take in beauty on the way.

:- Doug.

Come close enough
to feel your friend’s breath
re-weaving your heart

:- Doug.

Silks of rain blown by the wind
except nothing from skies
and wind only of spirit:
Dancing labyrinths of scents,
sounds, seasonings, and texture

:- Doug.

Poking holes
off we go into the wild
grey yonder

:- Doug.

Each grandchild is precious. The more you have, the less earth for each. Please don’t have so many!

:- Doug.

Can you say the thing without using visual referents, while staying concrete?

:- Doug.

Prayer:
Bid waxing forces swell
quelling forces shrink

:- Doug.

It is necessary, this requires, I drop my attitude of holding up a shield. I am about to be filleted. No longer will I swim and cavort, I am going to be food.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 2414

No, not confusion
no longer embarrassed
all over
a word that got
lost on the way
tip of the . . . .

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take my hand, come walk
along landscapes and waters’ edges
of conversation

:- Doug.

Shaping my fingers now
tingling, prickling, itching, taunting
a poem, unsought

:- Doug.